The Wax Lake Delta (WLD) is one of the few areas of land gain in coastal Louisiana and provides an analog for a naturally developing subdelta created by a river diversion. This study examined the spatial and temporal variability of benthic...

It is well recognized that rivers are the primary pathway that delivers sediment to the ocean. However, the fate of these sediments is poorly understood, and is complicated by relative sea level rise and meteorological forcings. One coastal system...

A sea-level database following a new protocol of quality evaluation standards has been constructed and is used for a comparative analysis to reconcile conflicting hypotheses about Holocene relative sea-level change in the Gulf of Mexico....

Bottom sediments of the Upper Barataria Basin and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet estuarine complexes consist predominantly of silty clays and clayey silts derived from the erosion of the St. Bernard lobe of the Mississippi River delta....